This poem reminds me of a very special little girl who lost her balloon one day while out shopping in a busy shopping centre. It floated right up to the top of the supermarket’s roof. Fortunately we were able to get her another balloon but the incident made me realise how important such things are to children.

“American Life in Poetry: Column 369
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE

E.B. White, one of my favorite writers, used to say, “Simplify, simplify, simplify,” but that doesn’t mean that writing has to be simple, which is a different matter. Here’s a fine poem by Laurel Blossom of South Carolina that’s been simplified into a pure, clean beauty.

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